Week Twenty-Nine

We will finish up the study of ecology at the beginning of this week, and begin our study of the first of 5 kingdoms; Bacteria, also known as the Moneran Kingdom.

A tentative schedule this week includes:

Monday- CRCT corrections / Succession Questions
Tuesday- Survivor Biome Posters and Presentations
Wednesday- Notebook Quiz / Getting to Know Bacteria
Thursday- Bacteria, Good or Bad? / Bacteria Video
Friday- Bacteria Microslides / Bacteria PowerPoint

Homework this week includes the Succession Worksheet due Tuesday, the Kingdom Chart due Wednesday, the Getting to Know Bacteria Worksheet due Thursday, the Bacteria Vocabulary 1 - 19 due on Friday, the Keying Bacteria and Bacteria Shapes Worksheets due on Monday (3/19), and the Bacteria Study Guide due on Tuesday (3/20).

Helpful Websites for Bacteria:

Moneran Introduction
Microbe World
All About Germs
Bacteria Rule
Dividing Bacteria
Growing Bacteria
Movies of Bacterial Mobility
Food Detectives

Week Twenty-Eight

Biomes are the focus of this week's lessons.

**The Chapter 23 Test will be this Friday!!**

A tentative schedule this week:

Monday- Biome Table and Biome Videos
Tuesday- Biome Survivor Activity
Wednesday- Succession Questions / Continue Biome Survivor Activity
Thursday- Review Chapter 23 / Biome Presentations
Friday- Chapter 23 Test / Silent Reading

Homework for the week includes the 23.4 Biome Worksheet due Tuesday, the 23.5 Succession Worksheet due Thursday, the Chapter 23 Study Guide due Thursday, the Chapter 23 vocabulary due Friday, and the Chapter 23 Test on Friday.

Websites for Biome Survivor Activity:

What's it Like Where You Live
Earth Floor: Biomes
Blue Planet Biomes
World Biomes
Mission Biomes
Lists of Biomes
National Geographic: Wild World
Rainforest
Habitats and Biomes
Desert
Introduction to Biomes
Polar Biome
Antarctica

Week Twenty-Seven

We are still working on Chapter 23, it's a long one! This week we will be talking about cycles of matter in an ecosystem, and we will work more with energy flow in ecosystems by looking at owl pellets and micro slides of microscopic organisms.

A tentative schedule for this week:

Monday- Cycles of Matter Notes and Video
Tuesday- Owls: Top of Food Chain Lab
Wednesday- Continue Owls: Top of Food Chain Lab
Thursday- Making an Outline
Friday- Ecology Micro Slides

Homework this week includes the Energy Flow in an Ecosystem worksheet due on Monday, finishing the Cycles of Matter worksheet by Tuesday, Reading pages 723 - 727 and doing Chapter 23 Vocabulary 11 - 20 by Wednesday, CRCT Packet due by Friday, Finishing the Section 23.3 Outline for a Quiz on Friday, Reading page 731 and Section 23.4, and doing Chapter 23 Vocabulary 26 - 46 by Monday.

Webpages for Owls: Top of a Food Chain:
Owl Show
Owl Pages

For helpful links for Energy Flow and Cycles of matter, check out last week's post.